An international team of scholars has launched a three-way collaborative project in Uzbekistan's high mountain regions to shed new light on the economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions of Turkic communities that thrived across Central Asia from the 6th to the 11th centuries.
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October 29, 2024
October 3, 2024
The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies (TCSRS) is deeply honored to announce a generous bequest by UC Berkeley Art History Professor Joanna Gottfried Williams.
September 6, 2023
In partnership with the British Library and the San Mateo County Office of Education, TCSRS and Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad trained 12 educators in London on primary source research about the ancient Silk Road in the 2024 Summer Institute “Cross-cultural Perspectives along the Silk Road.” Teachers and librarians from California K-12 schools spent four weeks meeting with librarians, curators, and expert faculty from UK universities to study ancient artifacts and manuscripts from China and Central Asia. Their program culminated in presentations and lesson plans that can be found
August 23, 2023
We are pleased to welcome Professor Osmund Bopearachchi (CNRS, France) at UC Berkeley this academic year, under the auspices of the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies.
March 10, 2023
The Institute of East Asian Studies thanks everyone who participated in the UC Berkeley BIG GIVE campaign on March 9 to raise funds for student awards and fellowships. Our special Big Give web page presents some of the stories of students who have benefited from fellowships and grants they have received from IEAS and its centers in recent years, making a difference to their academic careers.
October 4, 2022
Just published in Open Access by Amsterdam University Press, and based on a conference organized by the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies in 2018, The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes.June 18, 2021
New exhibition on ancient Gandhara at the Berkeley Art Museum, curated by Julia White and Osmund Bopearachchi. The exhibition will run until March 2022. For a virtual introduction to the exhibition, please click here. For practical information please visit the Berkeley Art Museum website.